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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 14
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Lot captured in battles of the kings—He is rescued by Abram—Melchizedek administers bread and wine, and blesses Abram—Abram pays tithes—He declines to accept spoils of conquest.
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And</span> it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 11: 2.">Shinar</a>, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;
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<i>That these</i> made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 13: 10; Gen. 19: 22 (20-25).">Zoar</a>.
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All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 34: 3 (2-3).">sea</a>.
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Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
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And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that <i>were</i> with him, and smote the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 6: 4; Deut. 3: 11.">Rephaims</a> in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/14/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 20 (20-21).">Zuzims</a> in Ham, and the <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/14/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 10 (10-11).">Emims</a> in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 12.">Horites</a> in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which <i>is</i> by the wilderness.
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And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which <i>is</i> Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
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And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same <i>is</i> Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
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With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
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And the vale of Siddim <i>was full of</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/10a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR bitumen pits; Gen. 11: 3.">slimepits</a>; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
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And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
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And they took <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 12: 5.">Lot</a>, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
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&#182; And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 10: 21.">Hebrew</a>; for he dwelt <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/14/13b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB by the terebinth(s) of Mamre.">in</a> the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these <i>were</i> confederate with Abram.
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And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR he led forth.">he</a> armed his trained <i>servants,</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/14/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 15: 3.">born</a> in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued <i>them</i> unto Dan.
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And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which <i>is</i> on the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE north.">left</a> hand of Damascus.
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And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within.">brother</a> Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
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&#182; And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that <i>were</i> with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which <i>is</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 18: 18.">king</a>’s dale.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/18a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB King of righteousness.">Melchizedek</a> king of <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/14/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jerusalem.">Salem</a> brought forth <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/14/18c" mark="c" type="C" title="Ex. 18: 12; TG Bread.">bread</a> and wine: <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/14/18d" mark="d" type="H" title="JST Gen. 14: 17  . . .  and he brake bread and blest it; and he blest the wine, he being the priest of the most high God.">and</a> he <i>was</i> the <sup>e</sup><a href="gen/14/18e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Church Organization; TG High Priests; TG Priesthood, Melchizedek.">priest</a> of the most high God.
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And he blessed him, and said, <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Blessings.">Blessed</a> <i>be</i> Abram of the most high <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/14/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God the Father - Elohim/Eloheim.">God</a>, <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/14/19c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR creator.">possessor</a> of heaven and earth:
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 1: 21; D&C 36: 3.">blessed</a> be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.  And he gave him <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/14/20b" mark="b" type="C" title="Alma 13: 15; TG Tithing.">tithes</a> of all.
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And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 5: 15.">goods</a> to thyself.
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
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That I will not <i>take</i> from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that <i>is</i> thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 2: 7; 4 Ne. 1: 3; D&C 6: 7; D&C 38: 16.">rich</a>:
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Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/14/24a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Gen. 14: 25-40 (Appendix).">portion</a>.
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